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Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Rufus Rock – To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

April 17, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The key to understanding technological development is to look at the economic incentives the technologists have. All fourth authors are researchers and professors at the University College of London. Cross-posted from The Conversation Time and […]

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How to Take Back the Internet – Interview with Cory Doctorow

February 14, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Insightful interview with the author of ‘The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation’ about big tech, monopolies, EU regulation and alternatives.  Konrad Bleyer-Simon is a research associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism […]

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Gig Economy Project – Lola Brittain: Own This! How Platform Co-operatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet – review

January 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Can platform co-operatives offer an alternative to platform capitalism? Lola Brittain currently works on the Fairwork Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she researches working conditions both on digital labour platforms, and within the […]

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Los riders sin papeles: Migrants tell their story from undocumented food delivery couriers to trade union organisers

October 3, 2023 Ben Wray 0

How do undocumented workers make a living in the food delivery sector? How can trade unions recruit migrant gig workers and ensure decent working conditions for all riders? The Gig Economy Project spoke to Paola […]

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Gig Economy Project – As Getir’s empire rapidly shrinks, workers plot a global strike

August 24, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Turkish grocery delivery platform’s problems are generating steep lay-offs and deteriorating working conditions for those who remain, pushing workers to get organised internationally. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network […]

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Gig Economy Project – Has Austria’s collective bargaining system tamed the food delivery platforms? Interview with Robert Walasinski

August 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to Robert Walasinski about whether the emergence of the food delivery sector in Austria has disrupted the country’s traditional system of collective bargaining. Interview available as a podcast or in […]

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The urban dimension in food delivery struggle: The story of the Riders Union Bologna

July 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

This interview with Maurilio Pirone is available as a podcast or in written text form. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to find out more […]

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Gig Economy Project – ILO economist: ‘Platforms are not delivering the women’s empowerment they promised’

July 3, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The World Bank and the World Economic Forum have promoted ‘digital entrepreneurship’ as the answer to increase female employment and tackle gender inequality, but digital labour platforms are re-producing the same problems as traditional labour […]

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Gig Economy Project – Ridehail bosses call for EU action after Spain declares taxis a ‘public service’

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Law comes on the eve of Spain’s General Election in response to the Court of Justice of the EU ruling earlier this month The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for […]

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Gig Economy Project – Spanish study finds Uber, Bolt and Cabify charge customers more in poor neighbourhoods than rich ones

March 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

First-of-its-kind study also claims that private hire platforms in Spain indirectly price fix and break labour laws. Read the full report in English here. A ground-breaking study examining the algorithms of private hire platforms in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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